And if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

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Q. 1: What does ‘VSOP’ stand for on a bottle of Brandy?

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Q. 2: What country has not fought in a war since 1815?

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Q. 3: What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways in the U.S. West?

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Q. 4: What animal is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund?

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Q. 5: Which is the only country in the world which has the Bible on its national flag?

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Q. 6: What is the total if you add the number of months with thirty-one days to the number of months that have twenty-eight days?

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Q. 7: What does the term ‘Prima Donna’ mean in Opera?

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Q. 8: What is a ‘Portuguese Man o’ War’?

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Q. 9: What color is orange blossom?

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Q. 10: People who are ‘color blind’ cab detect some colors but have difficulty distinguishing between two in particular, what are they?

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Q. 11: What is the three dimensional image created by laser beams called?

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Q. 12: Who was the first U.S. President to adopt the informal version of his first name?

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Q. 13: Organic chemistry is the study of materials that must contain which element?

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Q. 14: What famous and influential Theologian claimed he could drive away the devil with a fart?

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Q. 15: What is the liquid inside a coconut called?

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Q. 16: In which month is the ‘October Revolution’ celebrated in Russia?

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Q. 17: What are the next three prime numbers after 37?

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Q. 18: This one is the name of a flower and the colored part of the eye, what is it?

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Q. 19: What bird features in the poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

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Q. 20: Named after the characters in the Tin Tin cartoon series, how many people were in the band The Thompson Twins?

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ANSWERS

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Q. 1: What does ‘VSOP’ stand for on a bottle of Brandy?

A. 1: Very Superior Old Pale.

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Q. 2: What country has not fought in a war since 1815?

A. 2: Switzerland.

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Q. 3: What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways in the U.S. West?

A. 3: The Chinese.

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Q. 4: What animal is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund?

A. 4: Giant Panda.

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Q. 5: Which is the only country in the world which has the Bible on its national flag?

A. 5: Dominican Republic.

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Q. 6: What is the total if you add the number of months with thirty-one days to the number of months that have twenty-eight days?

A. 6: The answer is 19. Seven months have 31 days (January, March, May, July, August, October and December) and of course all twelve months have 28 days!

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Q. 7: What does the term ‘Prima Donna’ mean in Opera?

A. 7: Leading Female Opera Singer.

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Q. 8: What is a ‘Portuguese Man o’ War’?

A. 8: It is a sea-dwelling jellyfish-like invertebrate. Strangely though, the Portuguese never had a warship called a Man o’ War, and the Portuguese name for the jellyfish-like creature is Caravela Portuguesa, referring to an earlier Portuguese sailing ship design used for exploration in the 15-16th Centuries.

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Q. 9: What color is orange blossom?

A. 9: White.

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Q. 10: People who are ‘color blind’ cab detect some colors but have difficulty distinguishing between two in particular, what are they?

A. 10: They are the primary colors Red & Green.

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Q. 11: What is the three dimensional image created by laser beams called?

A. 11: A Hologram.

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Q. 12: Who was the first U.S. President to adopt the informal version of his first name?

A. 12: Jimmy Carter.

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Q. 13: Organic chemistry is the study of materials that must contain which element?

A. 13: Carbon.

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Q. 14: What famous and influential Theologian claimed he could drive away the devil with a fart?

A. 14: Martin Luther.

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Q. 15: What is the liquid inside a coconut called?

A. 15: It is called Coconut water. (Coconut milk, popularly thought to be the liquid inside a coconut, is made from the flesh of the coconut.)

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Q. 16: In which month is the ‘October Revolution’ celebrated in Russia?

A. 16: November. (Come on, it was never going to be that obvious!)

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Q. 17: What are the next three prime numbers after 37?

A. 17: They are all in the forties 41, 43 and 47.

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Q. 18: This one is the name of a flower and the colored part of the eye, what is it?

A. 18: Iris.

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Q. 19: What bird features in the poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

A. 19: An Albatross.

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Q. 20: Named after the characters in the Tin Tin cartoon series, how many people were in the band The Thompson Twins?